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Imagine a vectorialized typographic "C" which stroke width varies along the curve, as it often happens in typography.
I'd like to draw a curve between those two boundary curves in such a way that each point of the curve is at the same distance ratio from these two curves, for example it is always at the midpoint (dista... |
Hello I am creating this business card below:
So the green color I used for the icons is the same as of the logo which has these values below:
My question is, are the CMYK values ok?
I will be creating the business card using CMYK and offset printing.
And my second question is about the qr barcode.
The qr barcode is ... |
I am currently building a Torii gate from this concept image, but am having issues building the top cross beam. I have used the bend deform, but I feel that I am not efficiently solving this problem. Could anyone give me a push in the right direction to tackle this problem?
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I used Inkscape to add the text Prostanthera ovalifolia to a PDF generated by R and it came out jagged with bits missing:
The SVG file can be found online here.
Inkscape was re-installed a few days ago on a Windows 10 machine.
I have occasionally been editing similar PDFs created by R for several years and not met thi... |
I have a new installation of Inkscape 1.2 on a Windows 10 system.
Every time I draw a box, it has no outline; I have to turn on the Stroke. So I'd like to make that default.
I select a box which has the stroke I want, and go to the Properties with Shift-Ctrl-P, and select the Box1 Rectangle tool under Shapes. When I cl... |
I'm trying to replicate the pattern of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tie from "Midnight in Paris" in Illustrator.
I thought it would be easy enough, but have tried a lot of things with the white squares and gold background, and it always comes out something like this.
My first idea was one square.
I don't know what to do an... |
I have several svg files that originated as pdfs produced by R. These have been edited ikn Inkscape and now I need to combine them into one svg file ready for publication.
I have layer one - just a background. I added the bar plot layer, copied the bar plot and it went onto its own layer. If I close the eye, the plot d... |
I am designing a website for someone who has given me an undigitised logo of them they have not used anywhere yet. I do not know where it came from so need to make sure it isn't just a slightly modified copy of something from the Internet.
The overall problem is that it just is not a good logo and won't really work as ... |
I write academic textbooks, mainly used by engineers, which means they contain a lot of equations, tables and figures. To get the best possible result (same font in text, equations, tables and figures) and to have the best control over the presentation of ideas, I always design a camera ready PDF document for printing.... |
I am looking for a way to create this type of boxes (like "uncommon", "evocation", "magical" in the image below) around text.
Mostly this text would be on a separate line, but it should be practical to use, so it should be in-line text: The box size should change with the length of the text inside, and any number of th... |
I have a chart in a PDF file that I aim to convert to an SVG file via, e.g., Inkscape. My issue is that the figure itself contains thousands of objects (i.e., individual points), which leads to a huge file size both for the PDF and to an even greater extent for the SVG file. The graph itself is very dense, which means ... |
I need help with how to change an image I have to the aspect ratio of 1.91:1.
Anything I have found online says to use the crop tool and somehow change the AR using the ratio dropdown on the top toolbar
But I have no idea what I do with here and how I can change the AR without affecting the quality of the image
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Please, I need help with this issue:
I am working on a large Photoshop file that has 32 artboards with varying dimensions. This is for a specific project that requires these dimensions. The whole project has dimensions of 300 inches in height by 320 inches in width, and each board takes a part of that large area. When ... |
I recently came across a resume template which had circular progress bars as such-
Is there a way to recreate this in word?
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I have a simple unfilled circle shape:
I want to drag it and have it snap to the grid by the centre point. The problem is I can't grab it by the centre with the mouse. If I move the mouse away from the lines of the circle, the pointer changes from the drag cursor to the normal one.
Therefore I can only make it snap to... |
I am currently looking for a cyrillic font (for russian typewritting). It must be an opentype font usable with lualatex and fontspec, and must be complete : roman, italic, bold, small caps, superiors letters and figures, in serif and sans serif. For all I know, Libertinus is very close, but it lacks cyrillic small caps... |
I've been picking away at this script, the idea is to have a dialog that steps through the layers in the document and has the user pick from a dropdown to set a text box on the slug. The issue I'm having is the call to add the text box seems to be dying silently with no error message. I'm sure there's something obvious... |
I am drawing circles and ellipses and some of them miss a part when I change them into an arc or pie part (maybe not the right name, my computer is in French and it's called camembert). But not systematically (or I miss the pattern).
Another strange thing is that when I convert my file into a pdf, the arc or pie is com... |
I am applying a BW adjustment layer to another layer, and would like to use the mask of the adjustment layer in order to gently fade the adjustment in/out, i.e. by filling the mask with a BW gradient:
However I can't figure out how to edit the layer mask so as to put a (BW) gradient in it. I think this should be possi... |
I have more than 1000 titles with round brackets. All have a paragraph style. I'm trying to keep the title\text but removing the brackets. I managed to find them in the GREP, but I could not find what should I write in CHANGE area to keep the text without the brackets.
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I use InDesign daily to merge addresses onto envelopes. A client wanted the addresses left justified. However, they are very particular that each envelope has the address block centered - every guest has a different length name. After merging, I went in and adjusted every single envelope so the name was centered (by mo... |
I have been working on a 200 page PDF for about 3 years now. Every couple weeks or so the client has an update and a new version is created for the website's download page. There are technically three designs in: English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
Today, when exporting the English PDF and the Japanese PDF, there... |
right now when i do image editing there are 10-100 undo history that is needed to achieve my desired output.
when i click save and close the image. then open. the undo history is lost.
is there a way to click save, close the image, open the image and get the undo history back?
without this feature i need to carefully c... |
I have made an icon using shapes, with 72 ppi, and when I turn the layers into a smart object, and then change the resolution to 144 or 300 ppi, its losing quality. But the shape layers and text that are not converted into a smart object, regardless of scaling the resolution up or down, retain the crisp quality. So wha... |
Using Inkscape 1.2:
I start a new blank document
File / Document properties; I first change Display units to pt; then change Front page: Format: Custom pt; I get scale 2.834646 as Scale (pt per user unit)
(so ... now I have 1 pt = 2.834646 ... pt ??)
Then I add text; at the top bar, I set its font size to 12 (appar... |
I'm having trouble figuring out the cause of a (context-aware fill / generative fill) problem.
I have images with text in them. I want to remove the text.
This is the procedure I want to do to make the most accurate selection:
select - color range (select text color)
select - modify - expand (3px)
selection result:
... |
I'm trying to figure out how to make the red lines (selection, not drawn) into a single form. Does anybody have any idea how to do that in Adobe Illustrator? Because right now, as the tree said to the lumberjack, I'm stumped.
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In my svg, I've made sure I have no transform on any nodes on the way to my rect:
<g
inkscape:label="Layer 1"
inkscape:groupmode="layer"
id="layer1">
<g
id="my_group">
...
<rect
style="display:inline;fill:none;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:0.5;stop-color:#000000"
id... |
I had always known that font size is related to height of the text: What is Font Size?
A font is often measured in pt (points). Points dictate the height of the lettering.
(In my mind, I always it was the height of the letter "M", probably because of "em" size, but it turns out "em" was defined against the width of t... |
I have a folder of roughly 119 PSDs that need to be exported to PNG format. They need to preserve transparency properly for their intended purpose in print, and no other file format is acceptable. I also expect similarly large workloads to be a possibility in the future, so I need a repeatable and scalable solution fo... |
I need a tool (software) which generates PNG sprite, vertical or horizontally. So I thought of Adobe animate, unless there's another easy application or plugin anyone can recommend.
So I have made an animation in After effects, and exported the PNG sequence, and imported it into Adobe animate. All the sequence gets pla... |
A screenshot from https://spencermortensen.com/articles/typographic-scale:
But in the book itself 30-point is missing:
Why is that?
Important note: I have only the 2004 (v3.0) edition of the book. There are newer editions, namely 2005 (v3.1), 2008 (v3.2), and 2012 (v4.0), which I don't have.
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I've been trying to do the 'red shadows' in Illustrator for almost 2 days and I'm stuck. Can someone help? I saw a video that has a similar tutorial but they did it by hand, I don't think this is done by hand. I tried to offset path and cut out with the original object and it's probably the way, I just cannot realize w... |
I have a project in inDesign that was only budgeted for 2 colors, Pantone Orange and Black.
I've read that to print photos with only 2 spot colors, you'd need to have the photo set to a grayscale color mode and then in indesign, set the fill of the bounding box with the photo to your spot color. This works, but there a... |
I am starting with a rectangular picture of size say 700x700. I wish to extend it to 1000x1000, with the picture centered, and the outermost 1 pixel completely black (say). The space between the centered picture and the 1 pixel border should be extrapolated as a gradient from the picture to black:
Can GIMP do that?
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Aesprite has a "View > Tilemode" option. It will repeat the image so that you can make seamless tiles.
Unfortunately, I can only make it repeat entire images. This is not very helpful because the tiles that I'm trying to make seamless are part of the tile sheets.
How do I make it repeat only the tile I want to work o... |
I'm working on a project where I am building a map made up of tiles, and I was wondering if there was a way to identify all of these pixel formations inside of an image? Outside of doing it by hand, as it is a very large (3000x1500 pixels) image
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I am trying to achieve a specific text skew effect (see pictures below). I am using Affinity Designer 2. I tried following methods:
Warp Group - Perspective (doesn't work because the font weight of some characters visually changes)
Manually stretch each character using nodes
I am wondering if a different font would s... |
I have drawn two faces for a logo in Adobe Illustrator and I want to cut them in half so I can put text in the middle. This is how I want it to look:
Currently, I have these two faces:
It's not working when I try Pathfinder with a shape in front of the 2 images, it gives me weird results. Also using the knife or ... |
for example i selected some areas like following:
Now i want to expand above selections to following:
If have any trick or script for this, please provide here.
I hope you fully understand what I mean because this was the simplest possible explanation.
for example in following image i want to select all values and th... |
I have a document that made out of collage of a bunch of PDFs! These documents are contained with lits of Hyperlinked text and images, but when placed, and re-exported to Interactive PDF, they are not work (but do appear) in the final PDF.
Is there any option or way to fix that?
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i'm bad in JS, i asked one of my friend to help me in that, also, if you can give me your hand here this will be good too.
I have this code, which it's make search for the paragraph by give it the name of the paragraph.
var doc = app.activeDocument,
myParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.itemByName('.Vig P');
... |
I tried changing my Display Performance, and also exported a PDF to make sure it rendered that way and sure enough it does.
Same font, same stroke, two Adobe apps with wildly different results. Can't say I'm surprised.
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Assume I have a complex shape, like this cog:
I want to create a curve around the cog, in a constant distance.
The easiest way to do this I came up with is this:
Duplicate the shape, setting the duplicate to have no fill and a stroke that is twice as wide as the distance I want. (I set the stroke red for demonstratio... |
I'm trying to create an Action or some sort of other automatic process in Photoshop that'll create 100 Animated-GIFs.
Basically I have 100 folders that contain 9 images each, and I need this Action/process to take the 9 images from each one of these folders and turn them into an animated GIF.
So the results will be the... |
I want to make what I did between the letters A and B but between the letters B and C. For the first one I used a tiny rectangle and I'm not sure if this is the correct and easiest way to do it as I'm struggling with B and C.
How do I achieve this the most effective way possible and what is this even called in graphic... |
I want to draw a dashed-like shape that can be converted to svg properly. Usual way of drawing dashed-like shape is to draw a curve and turn its style to desire dashed style using Corel tools.
but when I convert this into svg and import it in Android as vector file, the dashed line become auto-closed, non-dashed and f... |
I have two auto-size text boxes that are linked. Data merge field A sits in the top box, data merge field B sits in bottom text box. They are separated by a Coloumn Break set right after field A. The text boxes are auto resized correctly when holding the data merge fields but after merging, the top text box doesnt resi... |
If you have a working website, is there a way to tell if parts of it are bad or good?
For example, I have created a cryptocurrency platform which I develop as a hobby project whenever I have spare time.
I would like to know if my design is user-friendly or could be improved, is there any online tools or similar that ca... |
I am interested in creating an action button in my PPT presentation that can open the file explorer on mac or windows so that the user can insert a picture. Basically I have a mockup of a phone and I want to create a rectangle inside of it with an action button so the user can click on the button and the file explorer ... |
Can someone please help identify this JP font? I haven’t had luck on other sites
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I want use Photoshop CS6 for batch editing because it is lite and can be used in sandboxie software.
following script is fully execute in the latest version of Photoshop (2023):
#target photoshop
/* Check for selection - from jazz-y */
var selectionBounds = null;
try {
selectionBounds = activeDocument.selection.bo... |
I have a Figma design... time to turn it into code.
The first thing I'll do is break sections up into components and I'll use SCSS/SASS/CSS to create colour variables.
Accordingly it would be helpful to have a list of all colours used throughout the entire design, not on a page by page basis.
The same with fonts, font ... |
There is a related question already posted here
How to print a PDF with large pages onto multiple smaller sheets of paper?
However, at the moment, we do not desire to print the picture out on paper.
We desire the output to be a digital portable document format file (.pdf).
I do not want to use the "poster print" op... |
I plan on self-publishing a book with dimensions Width=5.5'' and Height=8.25" and with a Cardo font.
Can anyone suggest, generally speaking, numerical values for (1) textheight (inches), (2) textwidth (inches), (3) oddsidemargin (pts) and (4) evensidemargin (pts)? Also, would 11pt be OK for the font size?
Thank you.
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I recently discovered a curious feature in a font called Raleway. Some of the glyphs for decimal digits ( 0 - 9 ) are placed above or below the baseline. Numbers displayed using the font seem to be wavy rather than straight. I'm wondering if this is done to make the digits easier to distinguish from each other. Is that... |
I use photoshop CS6 for batch editing high number of images because I can clone it by sandboxie software and it is very lite.
but there is a problem, CS6 have not "Quick Export as PNG" feature.
If it possible please provide a script for "Quick Export as PNG" in CS6.
i wrote following script but sometimes it show "Save ... |
In my view, the usual center page alignment of most of objects that contains more that one shape make it look a bit unbalanced and unnatural.
For example, the first image below looks very bad, the second one is the usual alignment of the center screen of most software. As I said, the third one looks very natural to me ... |
I don't have a lot of experience, I was ask a super specific thing to deliver with stock images. I am failing to find it, am I just using the wrong keywords, searching in the wrong place?
Or is it really too specific?
Word of advice please.
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I came across this problem while trying to search through Google Fonts for an alternative to the Press Start 2P font (reason being that it is not well supported elsewhere).
I know that even though the pixel style is a category itself, many of the pixel fonts also embody characteristics of general font classifications l... |
Hello,kindly help me identify this type of font.Thanks in advance.
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In previous CorelDraw user life, I had part of a 'workflow' where I needed to gather information on the height, width, and position of objects from a scaled diagram (think e.g., a technical drawing or log).
I used to do this in CorelDraw by simply exporting as a SVG, setting the units to millimetres and precision as 1... |
I'm having an issue with this template for PowerPoint and need some assistance. I'm currently using the slides containing the text "Zitat bearbeiten" (slide 11) and the one with two columns and separate headers containing the text "Untertitelformat bearbeiten" (slides 7 and 8).
I am unable to edit the text inside the q... |
I am working on a project and I need to separate the counters from the actual letter. I don't want to delete the counters - I just need to separate them. Please help me!!! MANY MANY thanks.
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In Figma.
As seen in the pic:
How do I delete the highlighted Section from the Component?
When I press Delete or Backspace the element hides, and there is no contextual menu option to delete, or even disconnect.
I have noted that plenty of people complain about it online. Is there an option or an add-on?
Here is my XY... |
Can anyone support/provide the steps for the Overprint checks in Preflight tool Adobe Acrobat DC pro application
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I have a small print-on-demand clothing company, and spend a lot of time creating mockups for t-shirt designs. I'm wondering if it's possible to place a "linked" smart object or vector object into multiple PSD mockup files in a folder, that would update automatically when it's updated. For example, I'm imagining 10 PSD... |
I have a book with appendices labeled A, B, C, etc. I am trying to get sub-headings like A.1, A.2, etc. with a letter in the "chapter number" position. In InDesign, I have a paragraph style for "Appendix number" like this:
List: Appendices
Level: 1
Format: A, B, C, D
Number: Appendix ^#
Mode: Continue from ... |
What Font is Used on This Packaging for the Text Reading "GUB"?
Thanks!
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I am relatively new to "Fonts".
I assumed this was a Google thing.
I think the idea of these font libraries is great!
A naming convention like this that crosses the boundaries into other html attributes (color).
And so the font styles pictured(circled) creates confusion.
the naming could be more like media how media s... |
As I discovered today, having your images to be 300 pixels per inch is not always a good thing for print.
Epson printers, contrary to Canon and HP, have native resolution of 360 instead of 300, and so if you are going to print something using an Epson printer, most probably (it seems Epson changed their mind eventually... |
1. First create a 12 x 9 inch Photoshop document with 360 pixels per inch and add horizontal and vertical lines after each 12 points. (Edit: 360 is simply what I use myself. You may test it with, for example, 300 instead, - there will be the same issue.)
2. Then select the Type tool, select 10-point Courier New and pu... |
As you can see in these images of a game the background colors are less saturated and grayer:
Do you think the designer reduced the transparency in the background or used grayer colors?
regards,
Saeed
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I've got a path under a circular mask. It has a colour fill. When I try to simply remove the parts of the path outside the mask, the path is no longer closed, and I lose the fill. How to cut the path to the mask correctly? I aim to later divide it into smaller segments to modify them dynamically with CSS.
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I want to set the dimensions of an object manually by entering height and width without editing the contents of the object. Is this possible? I am able to change X and Y of an object but not W and H. Please check the attached screenshot.
Additional Info:
When I transform scale the object the following options appear w... |
What font is used in the following image (the target font):
I used multiple online tools, such as https://www.whatfontis.com and https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont, to find the matching font, but the closest I could find is Apple Chancery. I reproduced the above image by typing it in Apple Chancery, and I get t... |
For some reason Schilderwald doesn't work on my computer, and surprisingly I can't find ANY other font where characters look like a race track, road track etc.
I tried keyword search and image identification, there is nothing except vectors.
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I am a beginner, and normally use Font Forge and Inkscape to create fonts. But those tools do not support colour fonts yet. Wondering whether there is any free tool for Windows or Ubuntu that can help me create colour fonts.
I know there are a few paid tools. But I am currently learning and not doing anything commercia... |
I have the following image:
I want to change the colors so that they match my own Xylophone. Since there are in-between colors at the borders, just selecting a color and filling the selected area with my target color is not viable because the in-between colors will stay unchanged. See here (zoomed in), original green ... |
I've finally got a new Mac (M1 Pro) and so I am now using the most recent version of PS. Hurrah. The app opens, which is nice, and I can open a document with it, which is also nice, but I am stuck trying to move the app window to my external screen. I can't move it by dragging it the way I am used to doing, as the ma... |
I am trying to replicate the curved lines in this figure:
Using the curvature tool in Adobe Illustrator, I produced this:
How can I make the curves neat just like the original ones?
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I'm currently facing problems with text alignment in my indesign. It liberally does not line up correctly at the bottom of the text.
I've looked for several solutions about this so far I didn't get an answer.
Could someone give me a help?
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Is it possible with a script or GREP styles to keep together multiple sets of paragraphs which can contain 5-6 different paragraph styles though the start and end paragraph styles are always the same – basically those and everything between should kept together, or moved to the top of a new column or text frame.
First ... |
When one exports a book file from InDesign to PDF (and maybe other formats) it is possible to get an error message, "Unresolved or out of date cross-references" followed by a list of documents with that problem. This problem doesn't show up in, with a pre-flight.
Sometimes you can find the problematic cross-references... |
I wanted to know if I use a player's image but I am not using it in any product or service my website is featured by adsense so that means a players image will be surrounded by ads which are not set up by me particularly Does that mean I am using the image commercially?
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I need some help trying to get Adobe Acrobat to work. A blue spinning ring appears 10-15 seconds after opening the app and it becomes stuck and unusable. Can't close the app without going into Task Manager. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling after restarting computer. Even deleted background processes on Task Man... |
I'm building my resume, and I would like to put years of experience in a section called "Skills", for example, React, PHP, JavaScript, etc.
I'm not sure about using Stars / Dots / Progress bars (since I would never put 5/5 on something as I know there's always something I didn't know) and I would prefer to use "Up to ... |
I'm trying to lay out a textbook. There are several cases where an image should be at the top of the page, before any text, like this:
That one is not anchored, but needs to be so it'll stay put, and also so that it will be included with surrounding text in the ePub version.
I've read this question and answer. The a... |
In my Gimp project, I created a custom shape, then converted it to a path. But I wish there was a way to reduce the number of nodes it generates...
What would be a good way to reduce the number of nodes, but still have the paths connected?
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Is my logo kerned correctly? Especially looking for the areas around the "A" and the "S".
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I have a cube in Cinema 4D Lite that I segmented so I could move the middle of one face of the cube up higher. How can I make that curved with bezier so the top of the cube is curved, rather than pointed? Here is a screenshot of what I have so far:
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Can you do sublimation transfer on a normal PVC card or does it have to be a "thermal" PVC card (used in Evolis or Fargo printer)?
What is special with these thermal PVC cards? Do they have special layer that purports sublimation transfer?
Thanks,
v
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I have a picture (rectangle in the center) and would like to tune color of it to minimize the color difference with background. I've changed brightness and contrast, but can't get better match.
Or if it will be easier: I have two pictures of the same size, but one of them is less detailed. Maybe there is a way to tran... |
I am facing the following typography problem:
In a scientific article I am writing, there naturally occur instances, where there are math symbols and their meaning scattered in prose text, e.g. "The input voltage u is given, as well as the inductivity L and the moment of inertia M, where [\n] i refers to the current th... |
The graphic designer im working with asked me to choose a Font. i really like the font used in this advertisement. however im not able to detect the font used in this video. can anyone help me with this concern ?
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I'm trying to finish a chapter on Boolean algebra and digital logic. I've constructed overbars by displacing the underline up above the character as explained in this answer by Lucian., and that seems to work well. Now I need a double overbar, that is, something that looks like an = sign perched above a letter.
The fo... |
I have over 2000 adobe illustrator files and some of them have missing fonts (i don't know which). Is it possible to search through the files without opening them in adobe illustrator to determine which ones have the missing fonts?
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I am very new to in-design. While working on a template that a more experienced (and now gone) user set up for me, suddenly I have an 'X' in the background on every page. How do I remove this? See screen shot.
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Is there a way to let/make Photoshop 2020 glow specific/picked selected color in the image only?
Like I know there is plenty of glow plugins or action files etc., but none of them - at least those I am aware of - can do this, that is to select very specific color and let it glow with specified intensity.
I mean I do no... |
Perhaps I'm in lack of correct search words, but here is what I need to do:
In indesign, I have a plane as background (lets say it is yellow).
I have a plane above that is blue.
Now, I want to cut out text from the blue plane, so that the text becomes yellow. But I want to preserve it as text. I know I can transform it... |
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